Deputy Speaker, let us at the outset acknowledge the role that the Mother of the Nation Winnie Madikizela-Mandela played. We know that she was humiliated. We know she was harassed. She was intimidated. She was banished. We know all these things. But, let me remind hon Malema that it is the NFP in this House who first said that women have not been recognised particularly in the struggle in this country. [Interjections.]
It is the NFP which said in this House - and the Minister will concur with that - that what we need is for a statue of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to be put on the precinct of this Parliament in recognition of the role that she played in the liberation of the people of this country. [Applause.] And we were told that a process will unfold and that process has not unfolded to date. Now, Winnie Mandela was a struggle icon, the mother of this nation, who fought the fight while her husband Madiba was in prison. She continued, she struggled for the liberation of these people. She was a lawmaker. So, is it not appropriate that the mother of this nation side by side